05.05.07

Baby Ducks 3

There’s a pond behind our office that is home to a myriad of wildlife including, but not limited to, ducks, geese, rabbits. the occasional beaver or otter and some frighteningly large fish.

So every year in the spring we get a bumper crop of baby ducks that are really too cute to be believed. It’s a little sad though, because you see families, like this one, with ten or more babies, and as they grow up they are gradually widdled down until by the time they are grown there are only a few left.

As I was watching this particular family I noticed that one of the siblings managed to loose his family an swam all the way across the pond in the wrong direction looking for them. I tried to tell him he was going the wrong way, but he wasn’t listening. I would have tried to get him to take him back to his family, but he never left the water. The last I saw of him, he was heading back in the right direction, but I don’t know if he ever made it back. I choose to believe he did. Next time, I’ll post a picture of him.